Amazon’s Alexa will use Reuters stories to answer questions
Reuters has struck a deal with Amazon where the voice service Alexa will use its news stories to answer questions. To do so, Reuters is delivering Alexa more than 45,000 stories each month, produced by its 2,500 journalists in more than 200 locations around the world. Coverage will include a variety of topics including breaking […]
Reuters hires USA Today’s Heath for investigative reporting
USA Today justice and investigations editor Brad Heath has been hired by Reuters to do investigative reporting. He starts next week in the Reuters’ DC bureau. He has been in his current role since January. Before that, Heath spent 12 years as an investigations reporter and deputy investigations editor for USA Today, writing mostly about […]
Reuters hires Spalding to cover health care M&A
Reuters has hired Bloomberg News reporter Rebecca Spalding to cover mergers and acquisitions in health care, biopharmaceuticals and industrial industries. She will be based out of New York. “Thank you all for your kind words in the last few days! It’s a great team and I’m excited for the new challenge,” she wrote on Twitter. […]
Ingrassia, longtime biz journalist at Reuters and Dow Jones, has died
Reuters editor in chief Steve Adler sent out the following on Monday to the staff: Colleagues – It’s with the deepest sadness that I share the news that our dear friend and former managing editor Paul Ingrassia has died after a courageous battle with cancer. Here are some thoughts I’ve put together about Paul, whom […]
Pierson, ex-Reuters pharma reporter, dies at 66
Ransdell Pierson, who covered the pharmaceutical industry for Reuters from 1993 to 2017, died last week at the age of 66. An obituary states. “He attended Louisiana State University and The University of Missouri where he graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism. “Ransdell was a reporter at the New York Post from 1983-1993. As […]
Reuters names Gajilan its digital news director
Reuters has appointed Arlyn Gajilan as its digital news director, in charge of setting the editorial direction for Reuters.com and other digital offerings. Based in New York, Gajilan joined Reuters eight years ago after a stint at the Boston Consulting Group that followed a 15-year career in both print and digital journalism. She has launched […]
Reuters hires Sanicola as an energy reporter
Laura Sanicola, a reporter by Insurance Insider, a trade publication at Euromoney Institutional Investor, has been hired by Reuters to be an energy reporter. She will start on Sept. 4. At Insurance Insider, she wrote about energy insurance, specifically insurance bought by U.S. oil refineries. Sanicola has also previously worked for CNNMoney as an associate writer for […]
Reuters is examining a peer-to-peer network for collaboration, fact checking
Reuters plans to introduce a “peer-to-peer network” to help journalists collaborate on stories and help each other fact check claims, reports Charlotte Tobitt of the Press Gazette. Tobitt reports, “The biggest challenges to Reuters and many other news organisations right now, according to Brooks, are trust issues caused by so-called ‘fake news,’ and changing consumer […]
Longtime biz journalist McCune retiring after 43 years
Longtime business journalist Greg McCune is retiring from the Associated Press after 43 years in the business. He has been at the AP for the past five years. “I intend to take some time to kick back with a glass of wine to toast a great run with my wife of 36 years, Pat,” said […]
Reuters-NABJ scholarships awarded to two grad students
Reuters announced the winners of two Reuters-National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) scholarships. The scholarships have been awarded to Jarrell Dillard and Chinekwu Osakwe for graduate journalism programs at New York University and Columbia University, respectively. Each student will receive a value of more than $40,000 in tuition and credits for the 2019-2020 academic year […]
